80 years of drive-in movies

June 5, 2013

America's first drive-in theater opend on June 6, 1933.

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A movie screen stands overgrown at the Mountain Drive-In on July 5, 2012 in Liberty, New York. The drive-in closed after it's 1997 season. The area was home to many Borscht Belt hotels that shut down over the years, starting an economic decline in the town of Liberty and surrounding Sullivan County that the community has failed to reverse.

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A movie screen stands overgrown at the Mountain Drive-In on July 5, 2012 in Liberty, New York. The drive-in closed after it's 1997 season. The area was home to many Borscht Belt hotels that shut down over the years, starting an economic decline in the town of Liberty and surrounding Sullivan County that the community has failed to reverse.